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Greg's Weekly quickTIP: The Poor Man's Event Log Monitor
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Weekly quickTIP: The Poor Man's Event Log Monitor
Full-suite log monitoring tools offer gobs of info, but for
those
times when you just need a nibble, Vista's event log monitor
delivers
the goods.
By Greg Shields
I love tools that centralize and monitor Event Log data from
multiple
systems. Microsoft has its System Center Operations Manager
http://tinyurl.com/23cm8q . TNT Software has ELM Enterprise Manager
http://tinyurl.com/2gahnh . Dorian Software has its Total Event Log
Management Solution http://www.doriansoft.com/
. Any of these systems
can aggregate event log data from systems all across the
network,
analyze it, chew it up and spit it all back out with full
reporting
and rich alerting capabilities.
But sometimes you don't need a fully functional tool to
solve the
problem. Sometimes all you want is a quick-and-dirty way to
set up an
alert when a particular event log entry appears. For those
times,
Windows Vista's new event log provides a "poor
man's" solution.
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Open the event log in Windows Vista and right-click any
event log
entry in the middle pane. There you'll see a new context
menu item
called "Attach Task to this Event..." Click on
this new entry to
bring up the Create Basic Task wizard. This wizard
pre-populates
the Name, Log, Source and Event ID associated with the
scheduled
task. All you need to do is configure the action you want to
occur
when the event is logged. That action can be either the
starting
of a program, sending of an e-mail or the displaying of a
message
on the screen.
If you've got an available SMTP server on your network,
configuring
the sending of an e-mail allows you to specify the message
characteristics right from within the Task Scheduler. Once
the
wizard is completed, the task appears in Task Scheduler
under Event
Viewer Tasks where even more configurations can be enabled.
I wouldn't discount the big players in the event log
consolidation
world like those I've talked about above. Their tools do so
much
more to make this process a lot easier -- especially across
multiple machines with multiple logs. But sometimes when
you've got
a point problem, all you need is a point solution.
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Greg Shields, MCSE: Security, CCEA, is an independent
author,
instructor, and consultant based in Denver, Colo. A
contributing
editor to Redmond magazine, MCPmag.com and a popular speaker
at
TechMentor events, Greg?s recent book "Windows Server
2008:
What's New/What's Changed" is now available at
www.sapienpress.com.
Greg is resident editor for Realtime Publishers' Windows
Server
Community, www.realtime-windowsserver.com, providing daily
commentary and expert advice for readers. gshieldsredmondmag.com
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